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Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Africa
In Africa, dryland ecosystem is the largest biome complex, covering 60% of the continent and home to ~525 million people. Coupled with adverse...
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Influence of the Relief on the Pyrogenic Disturbance of Geosystems of the Primorskii Range (Western Cisbaikalia)
AbstractA morphometric analysis is made of the relief for the mountainous territory in Western Cisbaikalia: the Primorskii Range, the landscapes of...
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Multi-scale coupling analysis of urbanization and ecosystem services supply-demand budget in the Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei region, China
Rapid economic development and human activities have severely affected ecosystem function. Analysis of the spatial distribution of areas of rapid...
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Achieving SDGs through Public Participation in Spatial Planning and Urban Governance: International Standards for Effective Implementation
Human settlements are deeply founded on civic engagement through the involvement of stakeholders, citizens, and the public. This entails creating a...
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Future Scenario Simulation of the Trade-offs and Synergies of Mountain Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Dabie Mountains Area, China
Mountain ecosystems play an essential role in supporting regional sustainable development and improving local ecological environments. However,...
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The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta
Urban resilience is an emerging research topic of urban studies, and its essence is described by the ability of cities to resist, recover, and adapt...
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Unravelling Regional Geodiversity: A Grid-Map** Approach to Quantify Geodiversity in the uThukela District, KwaZulu-Natal
The interpretation and integrated application of geodiversity has undergone significant theoretical and applied undulation to establish its own...
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Scale, Patterns, and Fractals
This chapter applies the concepts associated with scale to a broader context. It introduces fundamental concepts regarding invariance, patterns, and...
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Ecological transitions in **njiang, China: Unraveling the impact of climate change on vegetation dynamics (1990–2020)
For the past several decades, climate change has been driving vegetation dynamics in arid regions worldwide. This study investigates vegetation...
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Starting Points
The term resilience is used in a wide range of disciplines. Let us therefore begin with a goal-oriented evaluation of the current scientific...
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Stability Assessment of Insular Geosystems of the Empress Eugénie Archipelago (Peter the Great Gulf, Sea of Japan)
AbstractA landscape stability assessment is made for the major islands of the Empress Eugénie Archipelago. The landscapes are ranked according to...
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The Global-DEP: A Research Programme to Promote Sustainability of Dryland Social-Ecological Systems
In light of the escalating pace and heightened intensity of contemporary climate change and human interventions, a more systematic and comprehensive...
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Temporal Variation in Land Use and Land Cover in Gujrat (Pakistan) from 1985 to 2015
AbstractThe fundamental changes in the land use and condition of the land in Gujrat (Punjab province, Pakistan), which have occurred over the past...
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Emotional Maps: An Attempt to Identify the Correlation Between Building Types and Citizens’ Social Mood
Large cities are complex urban spaces in which hundreds of thousands of people live and build their socio-economic relations. Megacities are always...
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Landscape as a Geosystem
This is the core chapter of the book dealing with the theoretical principles of the geosystems. Defines the topical and choric models of geosystems,...
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An Overview of IIoT Related to the Modern Panorama of the Industrial Field
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an integral part of cyber-physical production systems and processes, characterizing the use of modern and...
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Riverine Landscapes
The chapter reviews the state of current knowledge and discussion on the evolution and typology of valley and river channel systems in Poland....
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Tourism, Urbanization and Spatial Reorganization: Some Reflections on Tourism Development in Goa, India
Modern tourism is all-encompassing and its intricate bearings are manifested in invariably every spatial component and more particularly the physical...
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Living in the Mountains: The Wide Variety of Land Uses and Their Geo-ecological Consequences
As we have already seen in Chap. 3 , it is not easy to define what a mountain is. We all have an image of...
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Riparian Vegetation Along Nigeria Rivers: The River Ogun Example
The presence of vegetationVegetation along a stream has been shown to affect a variety of biotic and abiotic processes, resulting in complex effects...